Single Payer rally with Dr. Bill Roy from 1-3p on Capitol steps in Topeka May 30

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Two items from www.heartlandhealthcareforall.com below:

1. Peace and Justice Festival at UMKC Pearson Hall, May 16 from 1-4pm.

2. Kansas Health Care for All is holding a health care rally at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka on Saturday, May 30 from 1-3pm.

Heartland Health Care for All will be organizing a carpool for people in Kansas City who are interested in going.

Please reply to this email if you would like to attend, so that we can know how many vehicles we will need to get everyone there.

Peace,
Lizz

AND: Here's a letter from Dr. Joshua Freeman (in Family Practice at KU) comparing the Public Health Option to Single Payer:

Janet Trautwein of the National Association of Health Underwriters (obviously an unbiased group!) says that government run health programs only save money by price controls. Not true; they also save money on overhead. Medicare overhead is about 5%, and when the “Medicare + Choice” plans that have higher costs because they are administered by insurance companies are excluded, it is less than 2%. Potential savings from a single-payer plan in administrative costs to hospitals, doctors, and insurers would be over $200 billion in not having to bill, re-bill, fight about payments, etc. Unfortunately, only a small portion of these savings would be achieved with a “public option” because providers would have to maintain the whole billing and collecting infrastructure for those who continued with private insurance.